Commentary

Menachem Kellner reviews Judaism’s Challenge: Election, Divine Love, and Human Enmity.

In this essay, Edelman and Steinberg argue for a literature curriculum that integrates Jewish thought.

The Yemenite Children Affair is among the most persistent myths in Israeli society. Ben Rothke reviews a recent book examining the evidence, or lack thereof, for the affair, as well as what its persistence means for community relations in contemporary Israel.

Zev Eleff and Ari Lamm cap off the Lehrhaus Symposium on the OU statement.

Shana Strauch Schicks's reflection commemorating the passing of Yaakov Elman, ob"m.

Shumel Hain discusses how we can bridge the "Tragic Gap" between the world envisioned in the blessing on budding fruit tress and our current reality of pandemic and tragedy

In this imaginative short story from David Zvi Kalman, as synagogue attendance shrinks, the buildings themselves begin to grow.

The back-and-forth about Shadal and Modern Orthodox kiruv continues. Here are letters to the editor by Daniel Klein and Simon Levy.

In honor of Yud Shevat, The Lehrhaus presents an excerpt from Eli Rubin’s forthcoming book Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism. Rubin explores the theological meaning of an influential series of discourses by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.

Shmuel Winiarz contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.